Elder daughter (who is now 18, for those keeping score at home) is playing DC Universe Online on the PS3. (I gave it a try on the computer but it made me want to vomit. That's nothing against the game, more a function of my astigmatism.) It looks like a lot of fun, I may try it on the game system, see if there's less motion sickness that way. I'm not sure of my opinion on must-be-online games, seems a little risky to depend on the servers of others for your entertainment, but I suppose that's the internet in a nutshell.
Both girls (YD is now 14, btw) are also campaigning heavily for us to pre-order the Deadpool game. Pros are that, of course, it is Deadpool. Everybody loves Deadpool. Everybody in my house, in any case. Cons are that they are just getting into another game now so it might be best to wait until the novelty of DCUO has faded, and that it might also be best to wait to see whether the game turns out to be any good.
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Cred
Reading again about "Girl Geek Cred." Apparently nowadays non-girl geeks hold girl geeks to a higher standard. Standard of what, I do not know.
But as a girl (well, at my age I'm not really a girl but in the interest of alliteration...) who has always been some variety of what is now called "geek," I am bemused at the notion that anyone who isn't genuinely interested in a "geeky" subject would find it useful to pretend to be.
Now I am antisocial by nature. (A friend of mine says a better term is "asocial" which is probably true.) As I've mentioned before, I was an unashamed teenage comic book reader. I'd bring a stack of floppies to school and read them during study hall. (Good students could get away with that, back then.) On a school trip to the city, I insisted on visiting my first-ever comic book shop. (The other kids were probably not thrilled but they tolerated it well enough.) If there had been comic book t-shirts back then I would have worn them. All of this for the same reason I do anything--because the subject interested me. Why else would I spend time on it?
I still love me some comics, although I certainly don't spend the time or money on it I once did, and I still consider myself a comic geek. (Well, I do now that I've heard the term.)
On the other hand, my interest in, say, video games, is much more sporadic. I like them, sometimes. I don't like all of them. I am a very casual player of video games. Not at all a video game geek.
I used to read a lot of science fiction. I don't any more. So, at one point I may have been a sci-fi geek but now I am not.
Does being a "comic geek" let me call myself a geek, unspecified?
My question is--do basketball fans get on hockey fans, say they're not "real" fans? I don't think so. I think sports folks recognize the notion of subcategories within an interest, and that not all sports fans have the same focus..
But as a girl (well, at my age I'm not really a girl but in the interest of alliteration...) who has always been some variety of what is now called "geek," I am bemused at the notion that anyone who isn't genuinely interested in a "geeky" subject would find it useful to pretend to be.
Now I am antisocial by nature. (A friend of mine says a better term is "asocial" which is probably true.) As I've mentioned before, I was an unashamed teenage comic book reader. I'd bring a stack of floppies to school and read them during study hall. (Good students could get away with that, back then.) On a school trip to the city, I insisted on visiting my first-ever comic book shop. (The other kids were probably not thrilled but they tolerated it well enough.) If there had been comic book t-shirts back then I would have worn them. All of this for the same reason I do anything--because the subject interested me. Why else would I spend time on it?
I still love me some comics, although I certainly don't spend the time or money on it I once did, and I still consider myself a comic geek. (Well, I do now that I've heard the term.)
On the other hand, my interest in, say, video games, is much more sporadic. I like them, sometimes. I don't like all of them. I am a very casual player of video games. Not at all a video game geek.
I used to read a lot of science fiction. I don't any more. So, at one point I may have been a sci-fi geek but now I am not.
Does being a "comic geek" let me call myself a geek, unspecified?
My question is--do basketball fans get on hockey fans, say they're not "real" fans? I don't think so. I think sports folks recognize the notion of subcategories within an interest, and that not all sports fans have the same focus..
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